FW: All of a sudden F-Secure decides to stop updating on the hour

[Julian Field]

Correct. I added a random (10 minutes max) delay to the cron job to spread 
the load on the anti-virus vendors' servers.
If you run "update_virus_scanners" by hand, it will do it immediately. It's 
only the cron job which has the delay built in.
Please don't remove the delay, it has been badly affecting some vendors 
(notably ClamAV).

At 15:52 16/03/2004, you wrote:
>I think a delay (up to 10 minutes?) was put in the script to avoid our 
>servers hammering the virus companies in unison every hour. That would 
>explain the apparent hang when running manually but not if it never updates.
>
>Brent Strignano
>System Administrator
>Granite Capital Holdings
>Sidney, NY
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ugo Bellavance [mailto:ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 1:36 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: All of a sudden F-Secure decides to stop updating on the hour
>
>
>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Michael Freeman [mailto:admin at thenamegame.com]
>Envoyé : 16 mars, 2004 01:08
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : All of a sudden F-Secure decides to stop updating on the hour
>
>Not sure why this is happening. We have been running the latest version of 
>MailScanner + F-Secure 4.5+ for over a week. All of a sudden, on two 
>servers, f-secure is no longer updating the virus signatures on the hour. 
>The latest update was on the 11th. It was working till then. When I try to 
>run the cron.hourly script it just hangs and does nothing. I disabled my 
>firewall and the same thing. Only one box is up-to-date the other two 
>stopped updating on the 11th. Please tell us why? Should we use the cron 
>supplied by F-Secure instead?
>
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